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Brill announces release of BrillOnline.com

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is proud to announce the release of BrillOnline.com, the brand new resource center for study and research.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) (22 December 2011)

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is proud to announce the release of BrillOnline.com, the brand new resource center for study and research. BrillOnline.com provides the academic user access to Brill's wide collection of e-books, online journals, online reference works and online bibliographies. At launch BrillOnline.com contains more than 800,000 documents.

This week, Brill is launching BrillOnline.com, the next generation online resource center for students, researchers and teachers in academia. BrillOnline aims to offer these users the best of today's functionality and features in online publishing. In order to generate the optimal user experience, the content is clustered according to its nature and to the functionality required and presented on three platforms:

With over 800,000 documents BrillOnline.com is among the richest scholarly sources of its kind. At launch BrillOnline contains 110,000 journal articles, 40,000 e-book chapters, 150,000 reference articles, and 510,000 bibliographic entries. New product and more content will be added continuously.

BrillOnline featuresexcellent browsing and searching tools, and essential personal tools for saving, alerting, sharing, and exporting. BrillOnline is compliant with current industry standards such as OpenUrl, DOI, Athens, Shibboleth, COUNTER, SUSHI, etc. It offers an automated permission service (CCC's RightsLink) and indispensable admin tools for library administrators. BrillOnline will be kept up-to-date to keep track of vital new developments in scholarly communications.

The BrillOnline.com platforms gradually replace Brill's current online services on IngentaConnect, brillonline.nl, and nijhoffonline.nl. In the coming period Brill will support its customers worldwide through the transition. BrillOnline.com will run parallel with the online services that are being replaced until all the necessary adjustments are made.

More information

For questions and more information about this media alert, please contact Sam Bruinsma, Brill's Vice President Business Development (+31 715353 517 or bruinsma@brill.nl). For questions about customer migration to brillonline.com, please contact sales@brillonline.com.

About BRILL

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language & Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), BRILL today publishes more than 170 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in both print and electronic form. Under the imprint of IDC Publishers a large number of research collections are marketed in the academic fields named above. Key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit brill.nl.